Professor Chris Skinner, FBA

Chris Skinner, FBA

B.A. M.Sc. Ph.D.

School of Social Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Telephone: (023) 8059 2533
Email: C.J.Skinner@soton.ac.uk

Research interests

Chris Skinner has research interests in the statistical methodology of sample surveys, official statistics and the social sciences, including measurement error, non-response and statistical dislosure control.

Roles

Leverhulme Professor of Social Statistics

Selected publications

Edited books and volumes
 Chambers, R.L. and Skinner, C.J. (eds) 2003 Analysis of Survey Data. Chichester: Wiley.
 Allan, G. and Skinner, C. (eds) 1991 Handbook for Research Students in the Social Sciences. London: Falmer Press.
 Skinner, C.J., Holt, D. and Smith, T.M.F. (eds) 1989 Analysis of Complex Surveys. Chichester: Wiley.
Chapters in books
 Skinner, C.J. 2008 Assessing disclosure risk for record linkage. In Domingo-Ferrer, J. and Saygin, Y. (eds), Privacy in Statistical Databases: PDS 2008 (pp. 166-176). Berlin: Springer., (ISSN: 0302-9743)
 Skinner, C.J. 2004 Méthodes pour protéger la confidentialité des données d'enquêtes. In P. Ardilly (ed.), Échantillage et Méthodes d'Enquêtes (pp. 45-53). Paris: Dunod.
 Skinner, C.J. and Holmes, D.J. 2003 Random effects models for longitudinal survey data. In Chambers, R.L. and Skinner, C.J. (eds), Analysis of Survey Data (pp. 205-219). Chichester: Wiley.
 Skinner, C.J. 2000 Dealing with measurement error in panel analysis. In Rose, D. and Corti, L. (eds), Researching Social and Economic Change: an Introduction to Household Panel Studies (pp. 113-125). London: Routedge.
 Kuha, J., Skinner, C.J. and Palmgren, J. 1998 Misclassification error. In P. Armitage and T. Colton (eds), Encyclopaedia of Biostatistics, Vol 4 (pp. 2615-2621). Chichester: Wiley.
 Kuha, J. And Skinner, C.J. 1997 Categorical data analysis and misclassification. In L. Lyberg, P. Biemer, M. Collins, E. DeLeeuw, C. Dippo, N. Schwarz and D. Trewin (eds), Survey Measurement and Process Quality (pp. 633-670). New York: Wiley.
 Holt, D., McDonald, J. W. and Skinner, C. J 1991 The effect of measurement error on event history analysis. In Briemer, P. P., Groves, R. M., Lyberg, L. E., Mathiowetz, N. A. and S. Sudman (eds), Measurement Errors in Surveys (pp. 665-685). Wiley: New York.
 Skinner, C.J. 1991 Time Series. In A.D. Lovie and P. Lovie (eds), New Developments in Statistics for Psychology and the Social Sciences, Vol.2, (pp. 174-198). London: Methuen.
 Skinner, C.J. 1991 Quantitative Research. In G. Allan and C.J. Skinner (eds), Handbook for Research Students in the Social Sciences (pp. 215-224). London: Falmer Press.
 Skinner, C.J. 1989 GLMs and coefficient ratios. In A Decarli, B.J. Francis, R. Gilchrist, G.U.H. Seeber (eds), Statistical Modelling (pp. 286-292). New York: Springer Verlag.
 Skinner, C.J. 1989 Domain means, regression and multivariate analysis. In C.J. Skinner, D. Holt and T.M.F. Smith (eds), Analysis of Complex Surveys (pp. 59-88). Chichester: Wiley.
 Holt, D. and Skinner, C.J. 1988 The transition from annual to quarterly labour force surveys The Community Labour Force Survey in the 1990s (pp. 345-376). Luxembourg: Statistical Office of the European Communities.
 Skinner, C.J. 1988 Rejective sampling (including Sampford-Durbin sampling). In N.L. Johnson and S. Kotz (eds), Encyclopaedia of Statistical Sciences, Vol. 8 (pp. 7-12). New York: John Wiley.
 Skinner, C.J. 1986 Probability proportional to size sampling. In N.L. Johnson and S. Kotz (eds), Encyclopaedia of Statistical Sciences, Vol 7 (pp. 237-241). New York: John Wiley.
Articles in journals
 Natalie Shlomo and Chris Skinner 2010 Assessing the Protection Provided by Misclassification-Based Disclosure Limitation Methods for Survey Microdata. Annals of Applied Statistics, to be published
 Matei, A. and Skinner, C. 2009 Optimal sample coordination using controlled selection. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 3112-3121.
 Young, C., Martin, D. and Skinner, C. 2009 Geographically intelligent disclosure control for flexible aggregation of census data . International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 23, 457 - 482.
 Chris Skinner and Natalie Shlomo 2008 Assessing Identification Risk in Survey Micro-data. Journal of American Statistical Association , Vol. 103, Number 483, 989-1001.
 Vieira, M.D.T. and Skinner, C.J. 2008 Estimating models for panel survey data under complex sampling. Journal of Official Statistics, 24, 343-364.
 Skinner, C. and Vieira, M.d.T. 2007 Variance estimation in the analysis of clustered longitudinal survey data. Survey Methodology, 33, 3-12.
 Skinner, C.J. 2007 The probability of identification: applying ideas from forensic science to disclosure risk assessment. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 170, 195-212.
 Durrant, G B and Skinner, C 2006 Using Missing Data Methods to Correct for Measurement Error in a Distribution Function. Survey Methodology, 32, 25-36.
 Durrant, G B and Skinner, C 2006 Using Data Augmentation to Correct for Nonignorable Nonresponse when Surrogate Data are Available: An Application to the Distribution of Hourly Pay. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 169, 605-623.
 Elamir, E.A.H. and Skinner, C.J. 2006 Record level measures of disclosure risk for survey microdata. Journal of Official Statistics, 22, 525-539.
 Berger, Y.G. and Skinner, C.J. 2005 A Jackknife Variance Estimator for Unequal Probability Sampling. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, 67, 1, 79-89.
 Berger, Y.G. and Skinner, C.J 2003 Variance Estimation of a Low-Income Proportion. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, 52, 457-468.  On-line article
 Skinner, C.J. and Carter, R.G. 2003 Estimation of a measure of disclosure risk for survey microdata under unequal probability sampling. Survey Methodology, 29, 177-180.
 Skinner, C., Stuttard, N., Beissel-Durrant, G. and Jenkins, J. 2002 The measurement of low pay in the UK Labour Force Survey. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 64, 653-676.
 Skinner, C.J. and Elliot, M.J. 2002 A measure of disclosure risk for microdata. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 64, 855-867.
 Skinner, C.J. and Rao, J.N.K. 2002 Jackknife variance estimation for multivariate statistics under hot-deck imputation from common donors. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 102, 149-167.
 Romaniuk, H., Skinner, C.J. and Cooper, P.J. 1999 Modelling consumers' use of products. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 162, 406-421.
 Skinner, C.J. 1999 Calibration weighting and non-sampling errors. Research in Official Statistics, 2, 33-43.
 Skinner, C.J. and Humphreys, K. 1999 Weibull regression for lifetimes measured with error. Lifetime Data Analysis, 5, 23-37.
 Smith, P.W.F., Skinner, C.J. and Clarke, P.S. 1999 Allowing for non-ignorable non-response in the analysis of voting intention data. Applied Statistics, 48, 563-577.
 Ekholm, A. and Skinner, C.J. 1998 The Muscatine children's obesity data reanalysed using pattern mixture models. Applied Statistics, 47, 251-263.
 Elliot, M.J., Skinner, C.J. and Dale, A. 1998 Special uniques, random uniques and sticky populations: some counterintuitive effects of geographical detail on disclosure risk. Research in Official Statistics, 1, 53-67.
 Pfeffermann, D., Skinner, C.J. and Humphreys, K. 1998 The estimation of gross flows in the presence of measurement error using auxiliary variables. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 161, 12-32.
 Pfeffermann, D., Skinner, C.J., Holmes, D.J., Goldstein, H. and Rasbash, J. 1998 Weighting for unequal selection probabilities in multilevel models (with discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 60, 23-56.
 Rao, J.N.K., Scott, A.J. and Skinner, C.J. 1998 Quasi-score tests with survey data. Statistica Sinica, 8, 1059-1070.
 Skinner, C.J. 1998 Logistic modelling of longitudinal survey data with measurement error. Statistica Sinica, 8, 1045-1058.
 Skinner, C.J. and Holmes, D.J. 1998 Estimating the re-identification risk per record in microdata. Journal of Official Statistics, 14, 361-372.
 Nascimento Silva, P.L.D. and Skinner, C.J. 1997 Variable selection for regression estimation in finite populations. Survey Methodology, 23, 23-32.
 Skinner, C.J. and Humphreys, K. 1997 Instrumental variable estimation of gross flows in the presence of measurement error. Survey Methodology, 23, 53-60.
 Skinner, C.J. and Coker, O. 1996 Regression analysis of complex survey data with missing values of a covariate. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 159, 265-274.
 Skinner, C.J. and Rao, J.N.K. 1996 Estimation in dual frame surveys with complex designs. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 91, 349-356.
 Nascimento Silva, P. and Skinner, C.J. 1995 Estimating distribution functions with auxiliary information using poststratification. Journal of Official Statistics, 11, 277-294.
 Marsh, C., Dale, A. and Skinner, C.J. 1994 Safe data versus safe setting: access to microdata from the British Census. International Statistical Review, 62, 35-53.
 Sitter, R.R. and Skinner, C.J. 1994 Multi-way stratification by linear programming. Survey Methodology, 20, 65-73.
 Skinner, C.J., Holmes, D.J. and Holt, D 1994 Multiple frame sampling for multivariate stratification. International Statistical Review, 62, 333-347.
 Skinner, C.J., Marsh, C., Openshaw, S. and Wymer, C. 1994 Disclosure control for census microdata. Journal of Official Statistics, 10, 31-51.
 Skinner, C.J. and Torelli, N. 1993 Measurement error and the estimation of gross flows from longitudinal economic data. Statistica, 53, 391-405.
 Molina, E.A. and Skinner, C.J. 1992 Pseudo-likelihood and quasi-likelihood estimation for complex sampling schemes. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 13, 395-405.
 Pervaiz, M.K. and Skinner, C.J. 1992 Multivariate analysis of clustered survey data: testing equality of covariance matrices. Australian Journal of Statistics, 34, 295-306.
 Skinner, C.J. 1992 On identification disclosure and prediction disclosure for microdata. Statistica Neerlandica, 46, 21-32.
 Marsh, C., Skinner, C.J., Arber, S., Penhale, B., Openshaw, S., Lievesley, D., Hobcraft, J., Walford, N. 1991 A case for a sample of anonymized records from the 1991 Census (with comments). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, A, 154, 305-340.
 Skinner, C.J. 1991 On the efficiency of raking ratio estimates for multiple frame surveys. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 86, 779-784.
 Pervaiz, M.K. and Skinner, C.J. 1990 A Monte-Carlo comparison of elliptical theory and other tests for equality of covariance matrices. Australian Journal of Statistics, 32, 71-86.
 Holt, D. and Skinner, C.J. 1989 Components of change in repeated surveys. International Statistical Review, 57, 1-18.
 Pervaiz, M.K. and Skinner, C.J. 1988 Elliptical-theory tests for equality of two covariance matrices. Pakistan Journal of Statistics, 4, 71-82.
 Skinner, C.J. 1988 On conditioning for model-based inference in survey sampling. Biometrika, 75, 275-286.
 Brunsdon, T.M. and Skinner, C.J. 1987 The analysis of dependencies between time-series in psychological experiments. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 40, 125-139.
 Skinner, C.J. 1986 Design effects of two-stage sampling. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B, 48, 89-99.
 Skinner, C.J. 1986 Regression estimation and post-stratification in factor analysis. Psychometrika, 51, 347-356.
 Skinner, C.J., Holmes, D.J. and Smith, T.M.F 1986 The effect of sample design on principal component analysis. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 81, 789-798.
 Skinner, C.J. 1984 On the geometric approach to multivariate selection. Psychometrika, 49, 383-390.
 Skinner, C.J. 1983 Multivariate prediction from selected samples. Biometrika, 70, 289-292.
 Skinner, C.J. 1981 Estimation of the variance of a finite population for cluster samples. Sankhya B, 43, 392-398.
 
Working papers
 Natalie Shlomo, Chris Skinner and Barry Schouten 2009 Estimation of an Indicator of the Representativeness of Survey Response